East Experimental Area Upgrade

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Objective

The East Experimental Area has been home to very important physics experiments such as the Dirac, Cloud and others for over 50 years. A large number of controlled thyristor rectifiers has been providing a regulated current to more than 50 magnets, however, new physics requirements as well as energy efficiency concerns motivate an extensive renovation of the facility. The mission of the Electrical Power Converters group in the "East Area" project is to provide new power conversion solutions and coordinate the associated infrastructure upgrade.

Project team

Project Management
Global Project Project Plan

Project Management

Global Project

Project Plan

East Area Consolidation Coordinator: Sebastien Evrard
EPC Responsible: Konstantinos Papastergiou
Team members: Guillermo Navarro Patron, Christophe Mutin, Stephane Reignier

Background Documents

East Area Consolidation – EDMS 1471844
Requirements Specification and Project Planning [to appear]
Strategy for energy recovery and saving operation
Magnetic measurement results of the dipole PXMBXHDCWP for East Area Project

Project Timeline

Requirement specifications and project planning (i.e. define special functionality for physics operations, machine protection features, safety features, required MTBF etc)	completed
Technical studies (i.e definition of power converter parameters/ratings, design reports)	completed
Infrastusture and Services modifications/upgrade study (i.e. Civil works, electrical feeders, cooling network, FGC gateways and network connections)	completed
Invitations for Tender (Market Surveys, Call for Tenders, Qualification of suppliers, Contracts, order follow-up)	Completed
Infrastructure and services works (infrastructure works, cabling, transformers and electrical feeders, cooling and ventilation, data network, access)	Completed
Power converters installation and commissionning (Installation, commissioning, performance tests, hand-over to operation team)	Completed